It's only inflation when the Fed does it. Otherwise it's from the sparking price increase region of France

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"This couldn’t be a simpler scandal to sum up for the American people, if anyone cared to do so: This is Donald Trump ordering the looting of the public treasury for his own benefit."

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

"DC received a clear message that being anti-crypto is a good way to end your career, as it doesn't represent the will of the voters," Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong, a key Fairshake donor, wrote following Brown's defeat.

Being critical of AI "is about the best fight you can politically take on right now," said Cooper Teboe, a strategist for congressman Ro Khanna, who recently called for "enforceable guardrails" for AL. Those afraid their stance will prompt an industry-led backlash may be shortsighted, Teboe added. "I do think the next three presidential elections will be fought over trying to figure out [AI]."

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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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When you're Grifter in Chief they just let you do it

Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

“Amsterdam is set to ban climate-damaging advertising [fossil fuel & meat adverts] in public spaces, following a trend spreading across Dutch cities.

France has also enacted legislation outlawing adverts from non-renewable energy companies, & one Italian city has plans to do the same.” #UrbanTruth

A face plant. A very revealing one.

Prominent Republican member of Armed Services Committee.

He betrays absence of Congressional oversight.

Brennan also asked Turner about absence of any public hearings. His answer was aaaawful (that they've held hearings in past decades).

Trump: "The New York Times is a fake paper. Just believe the opposite. It's so sad when you look at CNN, the Times, ABC fake news, NBC fake news, it's so sad. They report things they know are false. It's almost treasonous actually, if you want to really know the truth. It's almost treasonous."

pic of Dana White, Rubio, and Trump

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail

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Iran War Live Updates: U.S. And Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal After 21 Hours of Talks, Vance Says

Barack Obama sent seasoned diplomats and nuclear scientists to negotiate the Iran Deal. Donald Trump sent a few real estate bros and JD Vance. Failure was a foregone conclusion.

It’s been over three days now since our president threatened to nuke an entire nation after starting a war with that nation for no discernible reason. And Congress still has not moved to impeach him. And Corporate Media™️ has forgotten.

We are a failed democracy. No other way to describe it.

Is the fact that the Iran war wasn’t congressionally authorized something we no longer talk about? Seems like the reporting/discussion now just assumes that Trump can just do whatever he wants wrt the use of force

BREAKING WSJ:

Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments.

"I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval," Trump said in a recent meeting.
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Screenshot of Guardian headlines does not inspire confidence

I hate to say this but it's not a breaking point, which is the problem

“why aren’t college students protesting”

"Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history."

I was talking to a private wealth manager the other day and she was telling me that she's been feeding her private data into Claude for help writing memos to clients

I go, "You know that's a two-way mirror and they can see all the stuff you're putting in there, right?"

She goes, "Huh, I guess so…"

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Let's take a moment to look at some economic data showing how much damage he's doing to the US economy and consumers.

First up, CPI. His tariffs caused the main gauge of inflation to rise by more than 50%. In Friday's March report it is likely to jump above 10% on annualized basis!!!!!!! 1/

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

NEW: Ratcliffe told Trump that Bibi's war with Iran proposal was "farcical." Rubio chimed in and called it "bullshit." General Caine said it was an "over-sell." Vance said it would cause chaos and untold numbers of casualties. Cheung said people didn't vote for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”

Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
and
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

Is Trump About To Nuke Iran? The fact we can't say "no" for sure should terrify us.

Today's as good a day as any to start reforming the US nuclear launch protocols so a US president can't launch a first-strike.

For 80 years, the president has been a *check* on the desire of the military to use a nuke. Today, the president is the problem. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-a...

Also a shocking number of young folks here think orange guy was a successful businessperson and made his own fortune, lol. It has been hard to convey the depth of evil without sounding hyperbolic. My hope today is that his words alone prove the case that he's insane and somehow we avert nuclear war.

Living in Portugal since last year I've had lots of convos with smart, informed people about what's happening in the US and keep noticing a sort of "it can't really be that bad / surely it will pass" bias. I so wish that were true.

Seriously what the fuck

The US admin undoubtedly is a corrupt criminal mess of incompetence and flailing, but its values alignment discipline is strong.